Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Printers…

Printers...

There is this printer on my floor. It jams every day. At least once a day. More often that not, when I walk past the printer, the little orange light is flashing meaning there is a jam. It jams all the time. We really want a new one. Well, everyone except for one person. This person continually fixes the jams, calls in for service, and generally complains about the cheap paper as being the problem for the continual jamming. Except that the darn thing was jamming long before the cheap paper showed up in the office. It was just jamming less.

Now, one might think that the managers would get the hint. That they would see the amount of time it takes to constantly fix these paper jams and do something so that our productivity would not be hampered by something like a printer. It hasn't happened yet. And people are starting to use other printers, which weighs down their load times and makes them wear out faster. And also decreases productivity due to the fact that they now have to walk across the floor to get a printout. And then there is the chatting factor.

You see, one cannot just walk across the floor to get a printout. One is invariably stopped and asked a question, or one runs into an already existing conversation (usually about fluffy or William) and gets sucked in. It seems to be one of the natural laws of cubeland. You have to stop and chat.

So... Instead of taking 30 seconds to go to the printer that is closest to them, people are now traveling further and wasting more time talking. It is a very interesting matter. I wonder if I could put together some sort of chart showing how much productivity is actually being lost due to one printer being bad.

Huh.

Obviously I still have too much time on my hands.


Posted by Autumn Goddess on 05/12 at 06:55 AM
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